Ubiquitous 'benign' alga emerges as the cause of shellfish contamination responsible for the human toxic syndrome, azaspiracid poisoning

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-151

  James, Kevin J ^a   Moroney, Cian ^a   Roden, Cilian ^a   Satake, Masayuki ^b   Yasumoto, Takeshi ^c   Lehane, Mary ^a   Furey, Ambrose ^a  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tama Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

AZP; LC MS; Marine toxins; Protoperidinium; Shellfish poisoning

Indexed keywords

AZASPIRACID;

ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; INTOXICATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHELLFISH; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DINOFLAGELLIDA; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; MARINE TOXINS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SHELLFISH; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPIRO COMPOUNDS;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; PROTOPERIDINIUM;

EID: 0037305986     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(02)00244-1     Document Type: Article

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